2023
And if I don’t behave then what
2022
This Week, This Week!
In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play
2021
First Look Festival 2021
Never Swim Alone
Both 2021: A HARD DAYS SILENT NIGHT
Soldier Dreams
2020
BOTH Retrospective
In a Perfect World
Rorschach Fest
Open Fist 30th Anniversary Gala
2019
What Matters Now?
Last Call
2018
deLEARious
Tragedy meets hilarity andKing Lear gets a happy ending in a madcap musical romp à la Mel Brooks and Monty Python.
Open Fist Theatre Company revives its smash hit production of deLEARious, an award-winning play-within-a-play by
Second City’s Ron West and composer
Phil Swann.
More Info
2017
Walking to Buchenwald
Both
Original Concept by Mark Wilson;
Gospel Arrangements by Jason Paige;
Music Direction by Chris Wabich; Choreography by Eboni Nichols; and
Direction by Martha Demson
Last Dance with Dog days of Summer!
Alternative Reality
Top of the World
Suzanne Murray, a lovely woman with two small children and seemingly everything to live for, just drove to the top of an overlook and killed herself. Her husband Brendan, creator of a TV crime show, is determined to understand why. But real life doesn’t solve as easily as fiction.
The Gary Plays
Pop-Up at the P!
Before The Censors Stop Us
2016
Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2017)
Pop-Up at the P!
October
Pop-Up at the P! August
The Gary Plays
Sneak Peek: You’re Invited…
2015
The Irwin Price Extravaganza
Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2015)
First Look Festival 2015
2014
Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2014)
Reasons to Live
by Meryl Cohn
James Joyce’s The Dead
by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey
2013
Mad Forest
by Caryl Churchill
Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2013)
The Good Thief
by Conor McPherson
Me Love Money
by Brandon Baruch
2012
Hughie
by Eugene O’Neill
Early and Often
by Barbara Wallace and Thomas R. Wolfe
Modigliani
by Dennis McIntyre
Short Ends
by Neil LaBute
Moon Over Buffalo
by Ken Ludwig
Foote Notes
by Horton Foote
Curse of the Starving Class
by Sam Shepard
Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2012)
Everything is Enough
by Elizabeth Berger
2011
Proof
by David Auburn
Machinal
by Sophie Treadwell
Dear John Mayer
Score by Shoshana Bean Written by Eydie Faye
Crimes of the Heart
by Beth Henley
Both: A Hard Days Silent Night (2011)
Room Service
by John Murray and Allen Boretz
First Look Festival: 2011
Fringe at the Fist: 2011
2010
The Good Woman of Setzuan
by Bertolt Brecht
The Existents
Music & Lyrics by Ty Taylor
Book by Douglas Crawford, Ty Taylor & Jason Wooten
Rock N Roll
by Tom Stoppard
Stage Door
by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman
2009
Where’s My Money?
by John Patrick Shanley
The Illusion
by Pierre Corneille
Light Up The Sky
by Moss Hart
Quake
by D. Tucker Smith
Love Water
by Jacqueline Wright
Devil with Boobs
by Dario Fo
2008
The Dead by James Joyce
Blue Night in the Heart of the West by James Stock
Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
deLEARious by Ron West
Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage Adaptation by Michael Franco and Pat Towne
2007
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Travesties by Tom Stoppard
The Idiot Box by Michael Elyanow
Do Do Love by Laura Richardson
The Room by Michael Franco
Eenie Meanie by Teresa Willis
Seven Santas by Jeff Goode
2006
PAPA (Revival) by John deGroot
2006 Directors’ Festival by Various Authors
The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan
How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients by Matei Visniec
FOODSEXWORKSLEEPGOD by Ron West
Autobahn by Neil LaBute
Beautiful City by George Walker
2005
The Chekhov Machine by Matei Visniec
PAPA by John deGroot
General Admissions by Mark Banker
The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
Speaking in Tongues by Steven Bovell
2004
Abingdon Square by Maria Irene Fornes
The Devils by Dostoevsky, adapted by
Elizabeth Egloff
Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltes
Birdbath by Leonard Melfi
2004 Directors’ Festival by Various Authors
Lydie Breeze by John Guare
The Andrea and Hep Show 3 by Andrea Fears,
Hep Jamieson and Ron West
2003
Songs of Joy and Destitution
By Charles L. Mee Jr.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, adapted by Edward Kemp
Playhouse Creatures by April De Angelis
2003 Directors’ Festival by Various Authors
the Andrea and Hep Show 2 by Andrea Fears, Hep Jamieson and Ron West
The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union by David Greig
2002
Perchance To Dream by Jean-Claude Grumberg
Adult Entertainment, Problem Child by George F. Walker
Flight by Mikhail Bulgakov
2002 Directors Festival by Various Authors
The Mound Builders by Lanford Wilson
The Andrea and Hep Show by Andrea Fears, Hep Jamieson and Ron West
I Licked A Slag’s Deodorant by Jim Cartwright
2001
The Knacker’s ABC by Boris Vian
The Wooden Breeks* by Glen Berger
Casanova by Constance Congdon
2001 Directors Festival by Various Authors
Fen by Caryl Churchill
Sharon and Billy by Alan Bowne
The Freedom Ball by Chelsea Hackett
Exmass by Bradley Rand Smith, Lewis Black & Mark Houghtaling
2000
The Abdication by Ruth Wolff
Cowboy Mouth; Lobster Man* by Sam Shepard, Martin George
How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients* by Matei Visniec
Talk Show From Hell* by Jean-Noël Fenwick
The King Stag by Carlo Gozzi
2000 Directors Festival by Various Authors
Measure 4 Measure by William Shakespeare
Three Sisters by Anton Chekov
Bay of Smokes* by Alena Wilson and Alisa Wilson
1999
Fall Off Night* by Allison Gregory
Widows by Ariel Dorfman & Tony Kushner
Slippery People* by Charley McQuary
The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Escape From Happiness by George F. Walker
1998
Getting Into My Skin* by Saleem
Time Lost* by Jack O’Rourke
God’s Country by Steven Dietz
Sex, Death and Other Annoyances* by Ron West
The Accompanist by Berberovna/Adapt. Giurgea
Skin by Naomi Iizuka
We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! by Dario Fo
Fall ’98 One-Act Festival by Various Authors
The Notcracker Project* (with Circle X) by Various Authors
1997
Salam, Shalom* by Saleem
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
Titanic by Christopher Durang
The Vakhos by Euripides
Tabooki* (Serial) by Various Authors
After Easter by Anne Devlin
Buddy Jack* Adapted by Ron West, Joe Liss
1996
A Warring Absence by Jody Duncan
Time Piece; Guernica by D. O’Brian, Neal Bell
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht
The God Game by Allison Burnett
Journey of the Fifth Horse by Ronald Ribman
New York 243 by J.D. Zeik
1995
Etta Jenks by Marlene Meyer
The Flight of the Earls by Christopher Humble
Behemoth* by Della Vecchia, Smith
The Moke Eater by Ken Bernard
Blood and Stumbo; Falling by Beth Burns
Underground by Mark Litton
The Ghost Diaries by Keith Mason
1994
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Night Angel by William Piana
Vieux Carre by Tennessee Williams
Hush by April De Angelis
1993
Blood Moon by Nicholas Kazan
Cinders by Janusz Glowacki
Ms. Julie by August Strinberg
The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria by Fernando Arrabal
The Last Word* by Tony Spiridakis
After the Bomb by Roxy Ventola
1992
Baal by Bertolt Brecht
Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi by Pam Gems
Goose and Tomtom by David Rabe
Poor Murderer by Pavel Kahout
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Tiny Alice by Edward Albee
1991
Car Cemetery by Fernando Arrabal
Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill
Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco
Professor George by Marsha Sheiness
1990
True West by Sam Shepard